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canyon
geomorphological formation as narrow and deep ravine between cliffs or steep mountainsides
Details
- Instance of
- feature type
- Subclass of
- fluvial landform, valley
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- defile, urban canyon, Q131155202
- greater than
- ravine
- topic's main category
- Category:Canyons and gorges
Connected on Wikidata
Depicted in
- View of Catanzaro (from “Voyage Pittoresque, ou Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile” by Jean-Claude Richard Abbé de Saint Non)
- A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)
- Canyon
- Bartlett Survey Party Traversing a Canyon
- Black Mesa, Navajo Reservation
- Tomyris and Cyrus
- The Great Abyss
- The Last Judgement (study)
- The Canyon
- The Good Shepherd (Atlas Mountains, Morocco)
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